Heather Keaney

PROFESSOR HEATHER KEANEY is an alum of Westmont who has spent the past eleven years living and teaching in Cairo at the American University in Cairo and at the CCCU’s Middle East Studies Program (MESP).   As the acting-director of MESP in Fall 2009 she led 30 students through Turkey, Syria and Israel-Palestine.   Professor Keaney is enthusiastic about helping students place the events that make headlines in the Middle East within their historical and cultural context in order to reveal their human dimension.  She hopes students will come to share some of her love and passion for the place and its people.